Shock-compressor



(No Model.)

S. C.- FRENCH.

, SHOCK COMPRESSOR. No. 498,898. Patented June 6, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STANLEY CLARK FRENCH, OF GALESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

SHOCK-COMPRESSOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,898, dated June 6, 1893.

Application filed December 17. 1892. Serial No. 455. l26. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that LSTANLEY CLARK FRENCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galesville, in the county of Trempealeau and State of WVisconsin, have invented a new and usefulShock-Compressor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for holding cornstalks in compact form while the same are tied into shocks.

The objects of my invention are to provide a cheap and simple device that can be readily applied to corn bundles and readily operated to tightly compress or condense the stalks composing the same and retain them in such condensed relative position during Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I employ a pair of preferably cylindrical levers or bars 1' formed of tough woodand of similar length, and provide said bars or levers between their V ends, and preferably at their centers, with transverse openings 2. Through these open- I ings are passed the ends of a rope 3, which rope beyond the openings has its extremities knotted at 4, or provided with other means for preventing slipping of the rope through the openings. One of the levers or bars has its extremities provided with a longitudinally-disposed recess 5, which is V-shaped or right-angular in cross-section, and said recesses preferably decrease in depth inwardly from their extremities toward the center of the lever. The companion lever has its extremites corresponding to those of the firstmentioned levers beveled or squared at one side as indicated at 6, so that they correspond to the recesses formed in the first mentioned levers and are designed to take bearin g therein.

In Fig. 2 I have illustrated the device in operative position upon a shock, the shock being shown in cross-section.

In order to apply the device, one of the levers is held in one hand of the operator while the remaining lever is passed about the shock, whereby the opposite end of the moving lever moves toward the stationary lever, is carried by the same, and sprung over into the notched end thereof, the expansion of the stalks composing the shock being sufficient to maintain the rope under tension and the levers locked together during the operation of tying the shock. In this manner it will be seen that shocks may be conveniently and tightly bundled, and that sufficient pressure may be applied by hand to cause bundles of corn-stalks to be sufficiently compressed or condensed as to render the shocks tight even after they have become dry and shrunken.

I do not limit my invention to providing the ends of the levers with the precise kinds of ends or interlocking means that are herein shown, as they may be otherwise provided without altering the spirit of my invention or its principle of operation, it being simply necessary that they should bear one upon the other in a removable manner; and furthermore, various means may be devised to secure the ends of the rope to the levers.

Having described my invention, what I.

claim is 1. The herein described binding device for shocks, the same consisting of a pair of levers adapted at their ends to bear one upon and interlock one with the other, and a rope connected at its ends to intermediate portions of the levers, substantially as specified.

2. The herein described binding device for shocks, the same consisting of a pair of cylindrical levers, one of which has its extremities provided with longitudinally-disposed angular grooves or recesses, and the other of which has its extremities made angular to fit said grooves or recesses, and a binding-rope having its extremities passed through perforations formed in the levers and secured against removal, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

OB. N. SAYER, I. CLARK. 

